Rush Limbaugh floats ‘staged’ shoe theory

Rush Limbaugh suspects that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s near-miss of a thrown shoe at an event last week could have been staged, he said on his show Monday.

While Limbaugh said on his radio show Monday that he hadn’t seen it and was thus “ill-equipped” to discuss the incident, which occurred during a speech in Las Vegas last week, he still suspected the whole thing wasn’t as it seemed.

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“I’ve got people telling me her reaction wasn’t natural,” Limbaugh said. “I haven’t cared enough to go try to find it. I really haven’t. Somebody threw a shoe at Hillary. Big whoop. Maybe it’s because in my subconscious I think it was staged or set up or whatever. Look, folks, I know these people so well that I do not attach much genuineness to them at all.”

The accused shoe thrower was processed and released from jail after the incident. She was given a misdemeanor disorderly conduct summons from county authorities, and on Sunday, faced trespassing and violence federal charges, according to the Associated Press.

But Limbaugh dinged the media for not digging deeper into her motivations, musing that one explanation might be wanting to paint Benghazi critics unfavorably.

“Apparently the media doesn’t seem to have much interest in what motivated the woman shoe thrower. She [was] let go pretty quickly,” Limbaugh said. “Hillary thought it was a bat flying at her. Hillary’s reaction is kind of odd, if you would genuinely be surprised at something like that. But it’s the Clintons, so what are you gonna do?”

Limbaugh is not the only conservative to raise questions about the shoe-throwing. Fox News contributor Bernard Goldberg’s personal blog site posted a piece from a contributor on “the real story.”

“It would not be stretching logic to suppose that Hillary arranged to have the shoe thrown at her,” Arthur Louis wrote. “Remembering the Bush incident, she may have calculated that this would make her seem presidential.”